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Vol IX. No. 117.
TERBOBS of the storm.
Former Citizen* of Griffin Suffer
From It.
A letter was received yesterday by
one of onr citizen* from a friend in
Fort Smith, and it contained an in**
tereeting and graphic description of
the recent storm which passed over
that place.
The writer said that the accounts in
the newspapers did not in any partic
ular exaggerate the destruction and
the awful devastations of the atorm.
Over 80 bouses were blown completely
•way, and many other buildings were
damage. Over a million dollars worth
of property was destroyed ; about 20
people were killed and 125 were in
jured.
Dr. Cate’s borne was a total wreck.
He is lying at the home of a friend
with one arm broken and several in
juries. His wife is at another friend’s
home, seriously and it is feared fatally
injured. The mother of Mrs. Cate
died the day the letter was written.
A number of other persons were men
tioned in the letter as being killed and
injured but they are strangers to our
people.
A War Cloud-
McKinley "popped a cap” in Wash
ington yesterday, while the muzzle
was pointing in the direction of Spain,
and all Washington and the United
States navy is trembling.
The inquiry naturally arises, is the
government going to do what should
Have been done years ago?
Matters really begin to look warlike
and tbe next few days may find this
country involved in a foreign war.
In that event Gov. Atkinson can
furnish Colonels enough from his staff
to whip a brigade of Spaniards.
Twelve Months in the Gang.
The jury in the burglary cases yes
terday morning brought in a verdict
of guilty against Oscar McMahon and
"Bones” Etheridge, and a recommen
dation to metcy, whereupon they were
sentenced to serve twelve months up
on the county chaingang.
It is understood there will be no ap
peal from the verdict, and tbe young
men will enter promptly upon their
terms of service.
Don't-
Don’t judge the judge by the jury.
Don’t believe that love ever laughs
at the wedlocksmith.
Don’t think that because life is short
men outlive their good resolutions.
Don’t judge a man by the character
given him by bis next door neighbor.
Don’t kiss your sister before another
girl; always kiss the other girl first
Don’t acquire too much dignity ; you
might be mistaken for your-footman.
Don’t get too self important; you’re
not the only drop in the bucket.
Don’t forget to tell your wife occa
sionally that you love her; otherwise
she might not find it out
Don’t worry about trifles; the hole
that lets water in your shoe will let it
out again.
Ironical Ifs.
If a man releases a piece ofy/roperty
he takes a fresh grip on it.
If people didn’t have hobbies the
world would cease to levolve. 4
If a man once uses porous plasters
he is apt to become much attached to
them.
• If hope assumes the guise of an
Easter bonnet it springs eternally in
the female breast.
If it’s necessary to write to any one
you don’t care 2 cents for use a postal
card.
If we listen to the troubles of other
people it sometimes makes us better
satisfied with our own.
If two souls find they have but a
single thought it is. useless to waste
any time contemplating matrimony.
If a man marries a woman because
she has more sense than he has, he is
never allowed to lose eight of tbe fact.
—Chicago News.
Piano Tuning.
Charles H. Smith, of Atlanta, will
be in Griffin the latter part of thia
month to tune pianos, organs and mu
sical instruments generally. He wil
come fully endorsed by teachers and
persons of note.
Any one wishing him to do any
work for them will receive prompt at
tention upon bis arrival, if their re
quest is left at the Call office.
Educate Yoor Bowels With Caaearets.
Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
Wc, 85c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money.
Give Factories a Chance.
Why is it that Georgia la falling be
hind other southern states in manu
facturing ? It is not because her na
tural advantages are not a* great a*
those of any other southern state. She
has raw material, excellent transporta
tion facilities and cheap labor. She
has water power sufficient to run all
the mills in the south and coal is de
livered along the lines of all her rail
roads at a remarkably low price per
ton. Why then is it that, as a manu
facturing state, she has fallen, since
1870, from the first to tbe fifth place
among the southern states?
Those who have studied this subject
carefully are of tbe opinion that the
high rate of taxation in Georgia ba*
something to do with this condition of
affairs. A convention has been called
by tbe Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
for Feb. 10, to consider the advisabili
ty of asking the legislature to give in
corporated towns tbe right to exempt
manufacturing plants within their re
spective limits from municipal taxa
tion. Tbe question of exempting fac
tories from state and county taxes is
not to be touched upon, because tbe
state constitution makes such taxation
obligatory.
Would it not pay- cities to exempt
factory plants from taxation—at least
for a number of years? It would un
doubtedly. Without such exemption
very few of them will have any facto
ries. With factories they would have
a much larger population to support
the business of those who pay tbe
taxes. Municipal governments, there
fore, would be gainers by exempting
factories from taxation.
Some of the towns do exempt factory
properly, but ther x e is a doubt of tbe
legality of tbeir action, and as long a*
there is no certainty that tbe exemp
tion will be continued they fail to re
ceive the benefits they seek to obtain.
A law authorizing such exemptions
would enable them at once to offer in*
ducements which, in many instances,
would secure thriving cotton factories,
and factories of other kinds.
In North Carolina, South Carolina,
Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana factories have exemption
from municipal taxation, and all of
these states, especially North Carolina,
South Carolina and Alabama, are be*
coming great manufacturing states.
Georgia, owing to the lack of foresight
of her legislators, is lagging in tbe
rear. It is for her people to say wheth
er or not she shall continue to lag.
Suppose Georgia should turn into
fabrics her cotton crop—that portion
of it which is now exported—and
should send these fabrics to foreign
markets? Would not her people be
benefited to the extent of many mil
lions of dollars annually? They cer
tainly would. Georgia towns would
increase in wealth and population
rapidly. This city, in all probability,
instead of having one idle cotton mill
would have half a dozen first-class
mills in operation and a large factory
population.
Let us have the kind of legislation
which invites progress.—Savannah
News.
Dineleyism in New England-
Here are two direct results of tbe
Dingley tariff' so far as tbe cotton in
dustry is concerned : First, a greatly
reduced foreign demand for American
cotton manufacturers, followed by,
second, stagnation in tbe cotton trade,
an over-supply, and no market, re
sulting in a cut in wages and a strike
of 100,000 workmen seriously affecting
tbe trade and business of an important
section of the union.—Pittsburg Post.
In Olden Time*
People overlooked the importance of per
manently beneficial effects and were satis
fied with transient action; but now that it
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently overcome habitual constipa
tion, well-informed people will not buy
other laxatives, which act for a time, but
finally injure the system.
CASTORIA
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Te Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Caaearets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1898.
Bobert Edward Lee.
The warmest, most appreciative trib
ute that Las recently been paid to tbe
memory and character of Bobert E.
Lee earns from E. Benjamin Andrews,
president of Brown University of Rhode
Island, in an oration •in the Central
Music Hall, Chicago, two or three
months ago. Mr. Andrews was born
in New Hampshire, fought with the
First Connecticut Heavy Artillery in
the war, and has lived and labored
most of his life in 'New Hampshire,
Ohio and Rhode Island. The tribute
be pays Les, therefore, comes from an
appreciation of merit, and not from
tbe sectional feeling whioh might be
charged if he were a Southern man.
In the course of his oration, President
Andrew* said of Lee:
"He had tbe faith of <tbe crusader;
his letter* would make a guide to holi«
ness. He was always a soldier—never
impure in thought or act, never pro
fane or obsene. He did not touch tbe
cup. * * ♦
"He was never outgeneraled by
Grant in all the campaign from Rap
pahanhock to James river, never trap
ped and never caught napping. I fail
to find in the books any such master--
ful generalship as Ibis hero shoi/ed,
bolding that slim gray line, haff
starved, with no prospect of additions);
and fighting when bis army was too
hungry to stand and tbe rifles were
only useful as clubs. His courage was
sublime. He was as great as Gustavus
Adolphus, or Napoleon, or Wellington,
or Von Moltke. * ♦ »
“Lee successfully defeated, outgene
raled and routed the best generals that
Washington could send against him,
and it was not until tbe immortal
Grant, with the finest army of veterans
that tbe world has ever seen, took the
field against him that Lee’s marvelous
accomplishments received a check.
Even against Grant, Lee fought as
probably no other general ever fought,
and against odds that would have
driven Napoleon to despair.
"It was a great death struggle when
Grant faced Lee, and Lee then knew
that hie was a hopeless struggle. He
kept that thin, gray line of ragged,
hungry men, growing thinner and
hungrier each day, together. His
courage, his wonderful presence and
strong personality kept that little band
of tattered and emaciated men in bat*,
tic array, and fought to the last ditch,
surrendered only when he realized
that it would be murder to keep up
tbe struggle.”
Deafness Cannot bo Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it Is entirely closed deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out often are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. Chbkby & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
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De, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
Fine Cane Pasture.
lam prepared to pasture your dry
cows through tbe winter; also have
several milk cows for sale or to trade
for dry ones. For terms apply to
A. 8. Blake.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the partner
ship heretofore existing under the firm
name of WHITE A WOLCOTT has been
dissolved. The businef s will be continued
by Thos. J. White, to whom all indebted
ness must be paid. Thos. J. White hereby
assumes all liabilities of said firm of
White & Wolcott.
THOS. J. WHITE.
CHAS. F. WOLCOTT.
A CARO.
To My Friends and Customers:
As you will see the firm of Scott A
Horne has been dissolved, and I have
bought out the stock of goods of RobL L
Williams, and will henceforth be found at
the Scheurman Store, where I will be
pleased to serve my friends, I trust, as
well in the future as in the past
Thanking you for past favors, I am,
- Respectfully,
Jan. 1,1898. W. P. HORNE.
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Heroines in Modern Novels.
The extraordinary change in novels
•nd tbeir heroines is due, in a great
measure, to the change in women
themselves. These have ceased to be
tbe romantic, sentimental, artificial
beings they6vere even thirty years ago,
and tbeirffeflex in fiction has been diS
conthjutJa. We will not read of the
■hfnguishing, empty, mawkish, flavor*
less Sybils, Angelinas and Arabellas
that our mothers and grandmothers
hung over and wept over. The heroine
of the period is not satisfied to look
pretty aud obey tbe fixed rules of eti
quette; nor is the actual women so
satisfied, either. The actual woman
wants to be somebody, to do some
thing, to take some part in life, and
she is and does, even if surrounded by
luxury and bulwarked by influential
friends. It is noticeable how active
she is, bow useful she tries to make
herself, whatever tbe temptation of
wealth and society to render her other
wise.
Reading novels of the old sort was
weakening.. If not demoralizing. It
contributed to silliness and namby
pambyism at least. Not so with the
later novels, those of tbe present espe
cially. Tbe better kind are intellectu
al, encouraging, stimulating in a good
sense, and teach valuable lessons of
life, because based op observation and
experience. Their heroines act favor
ably, as a rule, on feminine readers,
and feminine readers, in away, act fa
vorably on them.—Harger’s Bazaar.
Still Leading.
A. K. Hawkes received the gold medal
highest award from the great Exposition,
superior lens-griuding and excellency
m the manufacture of spectacles and eye
glasses. This award was justly earned by
Mr. Hawkes as the superiority of his
glasses over all others has made them
.amous all over the country. They are
now being sold in over eight thousand
cities and towns in the U. B. Prices are
never reduced, same to all.
J. N. Harris & Son have a full assort
ment of all the latest styles
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No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent*.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, b'ood pure. 50c, *l. Al! druggists.
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GETTING THE GRIP
is easier than getting rid of it unless you
use our Grippe Pills. Your grip on good
health is best preserved by keeping the
body in good condition, and your vitality
strong, by the use of Grippe Pills, which
prevent* sudden chills, and enables you to
resist disease. Try it, and you will
weather the winter without illness from
colds.
N. B. DREWRY * SON,
28 Hill Street
Dissolution Sale.
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THOS. J. WHITE HAVING BOUGHT MR. C. F. WOLCOTTS INTEREST
IN THE BUSINESS OF WHITE <fc WOLCOTT,
Offers at Absolute Cost!
All Winter Suits for Men or Boys,
All Overcoats for Men and Boys,
All Winter Underwear.
THESE GOODS MUST BE CONVERTED INTO CASH AT ONCE. NONE
OF ABOVE ARTICLES WILL BE CHARGED TO ANY ONE AT THESE
PRICES. ANY ONE HAVING ACCOUNT ON MY BOOKS CAN HAVE
THESE ARTICLES CHARGED, BUT AT REGULAR MARKED PRICES.
THOS. J. WHITE,
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SAMPLE SHOES.
Our third line for this season
has just been received. All styles
for men, women and children at
wholesale cost. Buy your Shoes
now, before the sizes are gone, and
save one-third the price you pay
elsewhere.
K. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
H.P.EADY&CO.
IN HILL BUILDING,
Buggies, Wagons and Hamess.
We give good prices for your old
Buggy and Harness in exchange for
new ones. All kind of repair work
promptly done. •
H. P. EADY & CO.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
The firm of Scott & Horne has this day
been dissolved by mutual consent, W. P.
Horne retiring, and J. A. Scott assumes
all debts due by Scott & Horne, and all
debts due to Scott & Horne to be paid to
J. A. Scott. J. A. SCOTT,
W. P. HORNE.
Dec. 81, 1897.
I will continue the former business at
the old stand, where I hope to meet and
serve my friends as heretofore. I shall
endeavor to merit the patronage of the
public by legitimate dealings,
J. A. SCOTT.
° NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
All accounts due David Waxelbaum are
with Walter H. Beeka, who can be found
at the law office of Beeka A Boynton, cor
ner Hill and Solomon streets, Masonic
building. Please call and settle, to save
cost of collection. ___
DAVID WAXELBAUM.
Ten Cents per Week
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DO YOU LIKE
A NICE BEDROOM SET
in antique oak, or birdseye maple? If so
we can give you the finest bedroom sets
made, which wo are offering this week at
low prices for those who are economically
inclined. They are the best value for the
money we have ever sold, and will fit up
a room to look neatly, while they are as
useful and comfortable as the more ex
nensive sets.
CHILDS&CODDARD.
FOR RENT.
A5-room residence on Poplar street.
The house contains 5 rooms, a cook room
and servants’ room. A good well of water
and garden. Adjoins Dr. McDonald’s
home. Apply to J*. D. BOYD.
To Caro Con.tlpatkon Foreeen
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. Uto or Se.
If G C. C. tall to cure, druggists refund money.